Billy Elliot (UDA)

Billy Elliot was the brigadier of the Ulster Defense Association's East Belfast Brigade during The Troubles in the 1980s.

Biography
Billy Elliot was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland to a family of Ulster Protestants, and he joined the Ulster Defense Association shortly after its September 1971 formation. Elliot was already a brigadier in East Belfast by 1972, and he was one of Tommy Herron's bodyguards before Herron's 1973 assassination. During the 1980s, he became the brigadier of the East Belfast Brigade of the UDA, replacing Sammy McCormick. He criticized Andy Tyrie for intellectualizing the UDA, and he decided to leave East Belfast in 1988 after the assassination of James Craig by fellow UDA members. Ned McCreery took over the East Belfast Brigade after Elliot's departure.